…510 , , Van Corlaer, Anthony, 193, 3S8 Van Cortlandt family, 295, 522 Van Cortlandt house, 294-295 Van Cortlandt, John, 294 Van Cortlandt Manor, 95, 365 Van Cortlandt, Oloff, 9s, 206 Van Cortlandt, Philip, 317 Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 163, 232, 317…

of Yorktown and Cortlandt. The District has three schools, all located in Croton-on-Hudson: Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School, Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School, and Croton-Harmon High School, over 100 teachers and serves approximately 1,350 students, as…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign VAN CORTLANDT PARK KEEPER’S HOUSE (Demolished) Plate 28-, Old Croton Aqueduct A dwelling house for the overseer of the Van Cortlandt Park section of the Old Croton Aqueduct. Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation…

…In 1677, Stephanus Van Cortlandt, who later became the first native-born mayor of New York City, began acquiring land to create a manor and in 1697, a Royal Patent was issued designating the estate as the Manor of Cortlandt…

…Lossing in Harper's Monthly, about ten years after his Hudson appeared in book form, we quote the following description of the Van Cortlandt manor-house : Up the narrowing bay at the east, below Croton Point and beyond the Hne…

…Van Cortlandt. See Cortlandt. Van Cougnont (Cochnought, Coughnot), Michael, prisoner, removed from Johnstown to Al- bany, 364, 382; charge against, to be examined, 364; released on bail, 382, 383; his recogni- zance taken by Zepheniah Bat- chelor, 388. Van Den…

…In 1677, Stephanus Van Cortlandt, who later became the first native-born mayor of New York City, began acquiring land to create a manor and in 1697, a Royal Patent was issued designating the estate as the Manor of Cortlandt…

…On the 8th of August, 1774, the following resolution was adopted by the Common Council : — Ordered — That the northerly part of the property of Augustus Van Cortlandt and Frederick Van Cortlandt, fronting on Great George street, be purchased at £600…

…He mar- ried a wealthy wife, and became, by purchase, the proprietor of the Van Cortlandt Manor on the river. Van Cortlandt 's neighbour, Philipse, began life (ac- cording to Chief- Justice John Jay) as a carpenter. The experts in…

…Tompkins Elementary School, Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School, and Croton-Harmon High School, over 100 teachers and serves approximately 1,350 students, as of 2002. Approximately 75% of its student body lives in Croton-on-Hudson. PAGE 53 CROTON COMPREHENSIVE…

…Pierre Van Cortlaildt in 1773. This must not be confounded with the manor-house at Croton, to which reference has already been made. A year after the building of the Peekskill house, Van Cortlandt seems to have been living in…

…The Bronx The Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy: Van Cortlandt Park, the fourth-largest park in New York, once served as the right-of-way for the Old Croton Aqueduct. The Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway, operated by the New York City…

…manors, was just beginning to be divided and valued — but was, as yet, hard- Odell, Hyatt, Wildey, Acker, Beekman, Van Cortlandt — the names of ly "developed." The new public work would bring pure and abundant these Westchester landholders of the…

…From Pierre Van Cortlandt. Peekskill, October 8th, 1842. To C. CROLIUS, JR., E. D. WEST, WM. DODGE, Esq'rs. GENTLEMEN : — I have this day received your polite invitation from the Common Council of the city of New York, to join…

…North of his extensive territory, more particularly defined in another chapter, lay the manor of Cortlandt, reaching as far as Anthony's Nose. On the north of Van Cortlandt Philipse again appears ; the Highland Patent, as it was called, taking…

…Livingston, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Gou- verneur Morris, Colonel De Witt, Gansevoort, Scott, Ten Broeck, and others met to deliberate about the form of government to be adopted by New York State. There John Jay presented the draft of the constitution…

…When his first wife died, in 1690 or '91, he married the daughter of Oloff Van Cortlandt and widow of John "Dervall, who brought him a fortune of considerable extent to add to the eighty thousand guilders which made him…

…In 1677, Stephanus Van Cortlandt, who later became the first native-born mayor of New York City, began acquiring land to create a manor and in 1697, a Royal Patent was issued designating the estate

…A March 4, 1837, meeting of Westchester citizens, under the guidance of Van Wyck, prepared a memorial to the legislature condemning the Water Commissioners for extending the boundaries of New York City and "invading the historic manor of Cortlandt and…

…Colonel Hammond, of local celebrity, was actively engaged in organising the militia for defence; Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, of the Croton manor of that name, was an active and efficient guard- ian of the east shore of the Tappan Zee…

…To the west is Route 9 and to the south is the Van Cortlandt Manor property, a five-acre historic estate. The Harmon commercial area includes a mix of smaller-scale shops along South Riverside and a large (30-acre…

…serv't., PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT. From the Justices of the Marine Court. To the Honorable CLARKSON CROLIUS, E. D. WEST, WM. DODGE. The Justices of the Marine Court, Hammond, Sherman, and Randall, have the honor 65 258 CELEBRATION OF THE…

…Old Paulus Hook Ferry, at the foot of Cortlandt Street, was often spelled Powles Hook on old maps. In 1780 the Hudson froze from shore to shore, and was measured over the ice at this point, proving to be two…

…The Cortlandt Street Ferry still crosses the same water, but the multitude that it transports each day would populate a good- sized city; the several railroads making this their ter- minal station forming one of the principal arteries of New…

…That staunch patriot, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Chairman of the Com- mittee of Safety, addressed a letter to General Lee, protesting that the city was not capable of acting Digitized by Microsoft® 1 64 The Hudson River hostilely against the British…

…Van Cortlandt and others were busy at this time in organising the river guard, a fleet of whale-boats, manned by patriotic rivermen, and stationed in the bays and coves of the Tappan Zee and Haverstraw. This organisation afterwards did…

…A water purification and filtration plant currently being constructed in Van Cortlandt Park beneath the Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx to filter water coming through the aqueduct tunnel from the New Croton Reservoir. Croton Watershed: Consists of twelve culvert…

…It also joins historic Van Cortlandt Manor to the south. • Municipal Place Shopping Area, consisting of lots on the north and south sides of Municipal Place between Route 9 and Maple Street, and the commercially-zoned portion of the block…

…In the year 1697 the northern boundary of Van Cortlandt's manor was defined as running unto the north side of a high hill called Anthony's Nose, to a cedar tree which marks the southernmost bound of the land…

…as of this writing it is completely shut down pending the completion of the Croton Water Filtration Plant in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Section 1: Introduction of the land, the New Croton Aqueduct was buried deep underground. The…